Sex toys and designing for sexual wellness

  • Authors:
  • Anna Eaglin;Shaowen Bardzell

  • Affiliations:
  • Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA;Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Sexual health encompasses physical, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality. In this paper, we argue that designing for sexual health is an important aspect of the Wellness Informatics agenda, and that research on sex toys, which is underdeveloped in HCI, has the potential to contribute to this agenda substantively. We summarize our user research and present a set of design principles to further the agenda of designing for sexual wellness.